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This picture, which I took on one of my trips to Vietnam, also fits into the series "Window in House Wall". Ho Chi Minh City - the former Saigon - offers a myriad of good such photo motifs. I love going on a photo tour in Ho Chi Minh City.
Towards the end of my recent stay in Vietnam, I had to change hotels. While I first lived in my favorite neighborhood Thao Diem, my last hotel was in a rather brittle neighborhood, without shops and hardly any restaurants. The sobriety of the environment is also manifested in this image of a street wall, in front of which only one person passes by (out of the 9 million that HCMC has) and the two chairs and a small table that stand around somewhat unmotivated. However, the minimal furniture is typical for Vietnam. You'll love these miniature chairs! In every local restaurant, the guests sit around on such plastic parts. Of course, this also requires correspondingly small tables.
A việt kiều is the name for someone who has some Vietnamese background and who decides to come back to Vietnam.
Sometimes, they don't speak vietnamese and sometimes they really have trouble using chopsticks :)
This picture is a tribute to my father.
A photo taken at a cafe in Dong Van.
Vietnam has many unique inventions. The dripper in the photo does not need paper as coffee is filtered through pinholes in the metal plate inside. And more importantly, it is very cheap.
Coffee cultivation was first introduced to Vietnam in the mid-19th century by the French, but it was the Doi Moi economic reform in the 1980s that spurred private individual farmers to grow coffee as a cash crop, which eventually made it one of Vietnam’s major export products. Vietnam is now the second largest coffee producer in the world only next to Brazil.
With the increase of coffee production, Vietnam developed its own coffee culture.
The taste of Vietnamese coffee is similar to, but different from, French coffee and now has its own right thanks to the dripper and a distinctive roasting techniques.
Cafes are everywhere like in France, but the difference is that the stools are often very low. Someone said that the price of a cup of coffee in Vietnam is in proportion to the height of stool in the cafe. I mean, low stool cafes are cheaper.
This gentleman approached me and started speaking german. Having lived in Germany for a few years I picked up a little bit of the language but retained very little. He was very patient and pleasant as I found the majority of the vietnamese people I encountered.
Looking down Dalry Road from the junction at Haymarket, on a rainy February evening, past the Pho Viet restaurant and several other diners and shops. Quick, handheld shot with the phone.
Fried Chicken Wings with Fish Sauce
This is a very popular dish which most Vietnamese people love.. It's also very easy to make, only taking about 15 minutes following this recipe:
Ingredients:
Chicken wings
1 teaspoon garlic
1/2 spring onion
1/4 teaspoon dried chili
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon chicken powder
1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
1 teaspoon fish sauce
2 spoons cooking oil
1 teaspoon suger
Corianders
Preparation:
Chicken wings wash and cut it to 2 or leave it as normal, peeled and chopped garlic, sliced onion, cut spring onion about 4 or 5 cm long.
Sauce:
Mixed up pepper, salt,chili and lemon.
How to make:
Soak chicken wings with salt, ground black pepper, chicken powder and leave it from 5 to 10 minutes then deep fried in cooking oil until it looks dark yellow. Take them out and drain. Heat two spoons of cooking oil in the fried pan, then adding all the ingredients and cooked chicken wings and mix them well for 3 minutes. Put them all on the plate and add a pinch of ground pepper and garnish with lettuce, tomatoes and coriander.
"Fish" | Smile on Saturday
ok... I just made that name up. If anyone knows what it really is, please let me know in a comment. This big guy was the alpha fish in an oversized aquarium in a tourist candy factory in the Mekong Delta, so I'm pretty sure he wasn't on the menu. His job was to pose for selfies (along with the resident boa constrictor).